The National Security Agency has been spying on online sexual activity – including visits to pornography websites – as part of a proposed plan to discredit a handful of people the agency believes are “radicalizing” others, according to a new report.

The Huffington Post reports on the latest revelations from leaker and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which indicates the NSA has spied on six targets, all Muslims, whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches. According to the latest leaked document, the NSA listed vulnerabilities that could be exploited to discredit the individuals, including “viewing sexually explicit material online” and “using sexually explicit persuasive language when communicating with inexperienced young girls.”

None of the six individuals identified in the document is accused of being involved in terrorist plots, and the agency believes that all reside outside of the U.S.

The NSA document cited in the report was dated Oct. 3, 2012. It is the latest in a series of leaked classified documents obtained by Snowden, a former NSA contractor, who has since fled the United States and is living under temporary asylum in Russia.

The FACT that the Congress is on ACTUAL
NOTICE of the largest Constitutional VIOLATION in the HISTORY of the United
States (NSA program) and the “new” GOP members of Congress (e.g., Rand Paul,
Ted Cruz, et al.) have done nothing but VIOLATE the Constitution again via its
pre-meditated “shut down” tends to show term limits are NOT the necessary and
proper means to ensure RESPONSIBLE public service. Rather, there needs to be
OVERSIGHT by the Executive branch and Independent Judiciary. If the present
format just leads to a REVOLVING door to K Street…how would term limits for
Congress “change” the problem? Namely, the Congressional “leaders” just advance
lobbyist-agendas while in office. This should be carefully considered.

With regards to the LACK of ETHICS in
our federal government, maybe this underscores why the Bush Administration
officials should be prosecuted for VIOLATING the Bill of Rights, i.e., by creating
this monstrosity, it only created Diplomatic problems and these "alleged
issues" that (drumroll, please) no doubt the NSA will contend make its
adherence to LAWFUL State Action more problematic. SHUT IT DOWN, for God's
sake. As an aside, the "paid for" media's entire conceptual
approach to analyzing the threshold issues discussed erroneously implies that
the Bill of Rights and Due Process do not circumscribe the NSA's conduct in the
first instance. They make it sound as if this some "dance" between
the Congress and Supreme Court precedent interpreting the individual's
injury-in-fact- say, a person's 4th Amendment's right to not have his/her
emails searched and seized under the Bill of Rights. By such strained logic,
the Congress can just "do what it wants" with no regard to the
Supreme Law of the Land. That is the point of the INALIENABLE RIGHTS under the
Constitution. The State CANNOT "take it away". Sorry, that is just more
"law according to the Decider and his Foreign Puppeteer." It turns
our entire government on its head. And no, 9/11 or any other CRIMINAL act in
the future in the alleged "name" of jihad won't take it away
either. The NSA program is ILLEGAL and those that PUT IT INTO PLACE violated
the LAW. Period. What, such refusal to bring the most fundamental PROTECTIONS
of our Founding Fathers' system of checks and balances within the three
separate branches of government not a "deprivation" of life, liberty
or property? [see, Davidson v. Cannon (1986) 474 U.S. 344] Get real.

“There are times when even justice
brings harm with it.” - Sophocles

Oh, and ONLY the Supreme
Court has original jurisdiction to "say what the law means" and/or
use Judicial Review to hold Constitutionality of the alleged State Action face
to face. Funny, similar to the GOP Puppeteer's "anti-ACA playbook"
for GOP members of Congress to read from, apparently it bought a "Benghazi
playbook" with super-PAC money as well, and the law of Judicial Estoppel
precludes the SAME declarants claiming Secretary of State Clinton or President
Obama is somehow "vicariously liable" for Benghazi but- lo and
behold- President Bush is, what, somehow "absolved" of his negligent
oversight and/or purposeful direction to the NSA because- until said FBI
investigation- "we don't know what we don't know"? That makes a
mockery of ordered liberty. Why won't W testify under oath? Here, there is
arguably a tremendous prejudice to the People with data and confidential information
seized…there needs to be adequate assurances that communications are safe from
unlawful State Action that will have a "chilling effect" on Commerce
just as the Snowden disclosures of NSA spying on our own Allies could have a
"chilling effect" on Diplomacy.

All by design? I fancy.

"If you
attack the Prince with a sword, throw away the scabbard." - English
Proverb

Here, there is this ongoing and misplaced GOP "narrative"
that the Most Powerful Military in the World is, what, somehow "at
risk" from complete NON-THREATS like Iran and Iraq? That we should subvert
OUR WAY OF FREEDOM to (ahem) "guard against the Evil Doers" while the
GOP DOES NOTHING to even pursue the actual threat or advance Diplomatic agendas
that would CURE the unrest? Sorry, "arming and training" impoverished
Arabs and Persians is going to lead to civil war in, say, Syria and Egypt. Lo
and behold, the GOP Propaganda machine and Puppeteer alleges "President
Obama is failing on these 'Mission Impossible' situations," as if, in the
end, there is SHAMELESS subversion of our own Federal government's charter of
LIMITED POWERS. We don't OWE the Arab or Persian people in ANY sovereign a
"Police Power" or "ongoing military presence" if- lo and
behold- per the SAME super-PAC suckling GOP Congress- they REFUSE to even RAISE
the REVENUE or COLLECT funds from, say, Iraq which the Bush Administration
purports we "liberated". Well, that is NOT how the United States
works, just as warrantless spying on Americans and our Allies doesn't work, so
too, does "fracking" our OWN POTABLE water supply to RUIN and
complete ecological collapse so a few people can make a ton of money selling
natural gas to Asia no work.

This Tea Party-led GOP hell bent on "shaking
things up" has proven to simply do so in a destructive, counterintuitive
and often outright UNLAWFUL manner than VIOLATES precedent, contravenes Stare
Decisis and turns hundreds of years of precedent on its head. Because NOBODY
believes in the "good faith" of the Decider- after Snowden revealed
spying on law-abiding Americans- it is NOT at all legal, and the notion some
idiot propaganda sock puppets litter this site and, indeed, the entire web with
divisive Tea Party junk with an eye toward (drumroll, please) deflecting
attention from the FACT the Tea Party-controlled GOP Congress is trying to turn
our system of government into some "broke down, can't afford to run the Court
System or fund the SEC, IRS or EPA" joke of a performance of the Social
Contract has to be ENJOINED.

I have to say this is the definition of Slippery Slope. Guys, you want the NSA threatening to publicize your 2:00 am porn activity if you run for office or something? Every site you've visited, ever? It will happen, guaranteed. Hoover would be proud.

I believe the George W Bush Jr administration used this tactic against Democratic congress people and senators. How else can one explain the spineless behavior of so many during the reign of terror of Bush Jr and his people?

I'd like to know how the Huffington Post got their hands on a Snowden document,when all previous documents were leaked to The Guardian and Washington Post? Is it possible that the NSA is trying to steal some of Snowden's thunder by releasing documents itself, to other sources?

@Paul,nnto, some people are ashamed to admit that they like porn. I'm not one of them. I think true shame is admitting to watching reality tv (which is anything but) and belonging to the Tea Party (anti-American to be generous).